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757. Certaines donations peuvent être faites irrévocablement entrevifs dans un contrat de mariage, pour n'avoir cependant effet qu'à cause de mort. Elles Parcs de la donation entrevifs et du testament. Il en est traité en particulier à la section sixième du chapitre deuxième de ce titre.
Ord. des donations, art. 15.
758. Toute donation faite pour n'avoir effet qu’à cause de mort qui n’est pas valide crinme testament ou comme permise en un contrat de mariage, est nulle.
759. Les prohibitions et restrictions quant à la capacité de contracter, d’aliéner ou d’acquérir, établies ailleurs en ce code, s'appliquent aux donations entrevifs et aux testaments avec les modifications contenues au présent titre.
760. Les donations entrevifs ou testamentaires peuvent être conditionnelles.
La condition impossible, ou contraire aux bonnes mœurs, aux lois, ou à l’ordre public, dont dépend une donation entrevifs, est nulle et rend nulle la disposition elle-même comme dans les autres contrats.
Dans un testament une telle condition est considérée comme non écrite et n’annule pas la disposition.
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Jurisp.— 1. A clause in a will, declaring that a legacy shall be forfeited if the legatee should contest the will, held to be comminatory and as having been made in terrorem. Where such a penalty is imposed for a contestation, the court will enquire into the facts, and if there were just and probable cause for suspecting the validity of the will, it will exercise a just discretion in giving or not giving effect to the clause of forfeiture. Quere, as such a clause void as contrary to the policy of the law, or as interfering with the jurisdiction of the courts.— Evanturel et Evanturel, XVI L, C! J., 258 (ee d'Appel).
2, Tho 760th and 831st articles of the Civil Code cf Canada must be read togother; and by virtue of their provision all conditions in a will, unless according to the plain meaning and intention of the testator t'1ey be contrary to law, public order or good morals, are effectivs, and cannot be regarded as minatory only, or dependent for their application upon the discretion of the court. Such discretion is not conferred upon the courts by the code, and though exercised by the old french parliaments, has been since authoritatively condemned and repudiated. Such a condition as that contained in the said penal clause can only, in practice, be applied where a will has been unsuccessfully contested, and would, therefore, be ineffective to protect an illegal disposition or to render operative an invalid testament. Itis not against public order for a testator to protect his estate and re; resentative against unsuccessful attempts to litigate his will.— Evanturel et Evanrel, XX L. C. J., 218 (Conseil Privé).
3. (Confirming the judgment of the “ourt of Review, Quebec, and reversing (sement of the court of Queen’s Bench.) That a clause in a will declaring a egacy shall be forfeited, if the legatee should contest the will, is legal and will be enforced.— Evanturel et Evanturel, I Q. L. R., 74.
